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Architectural ideas and motifs excite in the minds of architects certain emotions, which are rarely shared in their fullness by the laity.

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Painting has something to say which sculpture cannot say; architecture has a message which cannot be repeated in music; and vice versa.

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The language of architectural forms is one of infinite artifice; it is born of traditions, is shaped by conventions, and speaks in parables and apologues, which are patent only to those who have studied the growth of thought in the development of its signs and symbols.

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If a monument of architecture is like a "song without words," it certainly touches the mind and heart as much as it moves the senses.

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Architecture does not reach its highest estate until it is so infused with imagination and fancy - not undisciplined imagination or capricious fancy - that the ordered fabric delights the eye of every intelligent observer and excites emotions like a poem.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Henry Van Brunt

Henry Van Brunt
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Born: September 5, 1832
Died: April 8, 1903 (aged 70)
Bio: Henry Van Brunt FAIA was a 19th-century American architect and architectural writer.
Known for:
  1. Architecture and society
  2. Greek Lines and Other Architectural Essays (1893)

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